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The thing is: it doesn't have to go anywhere. You grow nature on it and it's a hill in the end. However nuclear waste HAS to go somewhere. It has to be taken c
by Krasnol 7y ago
The thing is: it doesn't have to go anywhere. You grow nature on it and it's a hill in the end.
However nuclear waste HAS to go somewhere. It has to be taken care of ($$$) and probably for millennia to come by people and governments which can do stuff we can't imagine today.
Not even mentioning failed storage options we're face with today already like Asse...
- tialaramex 7y agoWhen they say it's "not the same as nuclear" they really don't mean it's just harmless rocks. Waste from a coal plant is (somewhat) radioactive, it's full of metals and generally very toxic. If you're lucky you can find some actual use for it, e.g. as a constituent for some construction materials that will fix it in place, but you aren't going to get "a hill in the end" in a human lifetime by insisting it doesn't need to go anywhere, you just get a toxic heap of unstable black dust. If you try to grow plants on it, plants that do grow will be extremely toxic, because the heavy metals and other pollutants are drawn up into the plant.